Economy

The Leader of the House has dismissed insinuations that the government is trying to avoid a banking inquiry by cancelling next week’s parliamentary sitting, adding that “there is no bill to ...

The chairman of the prudential regulator has suggested that the body is “uncomfortable at the thought of APRA supervising non-ADIs” and is “not seeking to expand [its] supervisory remit” ...

A new study by the Australian National University has stated that, despite reports of a housing shortage, there remains an oversupply of dwellings in Australia.

Banks in Australia ‘have sufficient capital to survive a deep recession and a collapse in the housing market’, according to the head of financial stability at the Reserve Bank of Australia

The pay gap between men and women working in financial services is closing but remains the largest in the country, according to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

New analysis from CommSec has revealed that the size of the average Australian home is now smaller than it has been for 20 years.

Australia’s recent property boom has set a precedent for home buyers to act with more immediacy, but 85 per cent of Aussies believe that the mortgage process is still too slow, according to ...

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has revealed that it intends to list individuals disqualified under the Banking Executive Accountability Regime on a “disqualification ...

The Reserve Bank of Australia has slammed claims that a recession is the only way for the Australian economy to improve, saying that recessions engender “destructive destruction”.

Homeloans Limited’s wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary RESIMAC Home Loans has priced a multimillion-dollar residential mortgage-backed security, the second issuance it has offered since ...